if you talk to business owners and i talked to a lawyer from austin, texas, which is his business at this point -- and the number of businesses who don't yet realize that they have been to be making the changes now, this is not going to wait, they have to be making changes now for kare-11 to happen. add to that, all the complications from the regulations coming out of hhs, i think you have a potential mess on your hand. if the president has to spend time tending to that, that could complicate his agenda for bigger-ticket items. >> how much of the next year will be devoted to trying to set republicans up for failure in the mid-term elections? >> i think that's a great objective. i think the legacy he would like to leave is if not the disruption, but the minutia of the opposition. the way he exceeded in the cliff-hanging negotiations to drive a wedge among republicans and leave them historically weakened. i think that's one legacy he wants to leave. >> and that would be in the mid-term elections. normally a second-term president doesn't really care about that because he has four years